Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War

Andrew Monaghan

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Manchester University Press
01 July 2025

International relations; Theory of warfare & military science; Defence strategy, planning & research; Military tactics

Series: Russian Strategy and Power

A cutting-edge study of Russia’s military capabilities.

Russian strategy in the twenty-first century has often been framed in terms of ‘hybridity’, an approach characterised by interference in domestic politics through cyber warfare and disinformation campaigns. But as the invasion of Ukraine has brutally demonstrated, conventional armed violence remains a central element of Russian power.

Moving beyond the concept of hybridity, this book looks more broadly at Russian thinking about warfare. Drawing directly on Russian sources, it addresses questions that have been overlooked in the existing Euro-Atlantic literature: what is the military leadership’s distinctive idea of twenty-first-century blitzkrieg? How does it understand holistic territorial defence? How does it manage the shifting balance between offensive and defensive?

Exploring key concepts and terms used in Russian military thinking and action, Blitzkrieg and the art of Russian war contributes to the active debate about Russia’s resurgent role in international affairs and the major challenge the country poses to international order.

By: Andrew Monaghan
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781526164520
ISBN 10: 1526164523
Series: Russian Strategy and Power
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 01 July 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction: blitzkrieg and the Russian military 1 Lightning war and deep operations 2 Barbarossa and its consequences 3 War in a time of military-technical revolution 4 Buffeted by desert storms 5 Facing twenty-first-century blitzkrieg Conclusions: the competition for (new) spaces Index -- .

Andrew Monaghan is Director of the Russia Research Network and a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. He is the author of The New Politics of Russia (2024) and Dealing with the Russians (2019). -- .